Cats 2019: Every Song Ranked From Least To Most Horrifying

12. Beautiful Ghosts

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The singing in this portion was... fine. The VFX that put Francesca Hayward's face on a cat-like body was... passable, if the slightest hint wonky.

Nothing about this song is particularly good or fitting, or particularly memorable. It's very middle of the road and the scene that accompanies it tries very hard to be dramatic, and the one thing that makes it slightly more troubling than the rest is the fact that, after Grizabella's extremely dramatic preview of the song Memory, someone decided it would be a good idea to leave some very visible snot under her nose. It could very well be tears, but the clear line visible under one nostril says otherwise, and it is... distracting, to say the least.

In an overall okay song that was added in for award show purposes, this specific creative decision put it just a little higher on the list, because of the many questionable decisions made in this film - this one made you want to take a tissue and wipe that mess off Jennifer Hudson's face.

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